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Hein de Haas: Human Migration: Myths, Hysteria and Facts
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Thursday, 24 July 2014. Human Migration: Myths, Hysteria and Facts. Migration is a hotly debated but poorly understood issue. Much conventional thinking about migration is based on myths rather than facts. Migration policies often fail because they are based on those same myths. It is therefore time that we learn to see migration as an intrinsic and therefore inevitable part of the broader processes of societal change and globalisation instead of a 'problem to be solved'. Project) to prove them wrong.
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Hein de Haas: Will a 'Brexit' curb immigration?
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Tuesday, 5 May 2015. Will a 'Brexit' curb immigration? Leaders of anti-immigration parties such as Nigel Farage of the UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) and Geert Wilders' of the Dutch Freedom Party have often stated that getting out of the EU is the only way to curb immigration. At first sight, this seems logical. After all, as long as countries stay in the EU, they have to respect the free mobility rights of half a billion EU citizens. The recent increase in immigration to the UK is largely the ...
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Hein de Haas: January 2015
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Wednesday, 7 January 2015. In my previous blogpost, I argued that politicians are often busy with feigning immigration control. While in reality they often can or want to do little about it. Does that mean that borders are beyond control. As Jagdish Bhagwati famously argued in 2003? Have governments lost control? What do we actually know about the effects of immigration policies? In order to answer this question, I have conducted a research project on the 'Determinants of International Migration' ( DEMIG.
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The true effect of migration: growth, higher wages, lower taxes | Migration & Citizenship Research
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Migration and Citizenship Research. Research and reports on migration and citizenship. OpenDemocracy – Europe. Europe sees rise in unaccompanied children seeking asylum. The true effect of migration: growth, higher wages, lower taxes. Closing borders does NOT reduce migration:. Closing borders, as also shown in a report by the UK Home Office. This is also evidenced by research in the DEMIG. Making the effect of restrictions on net migration. Professor Hein de Haas. The recent increase in immigration to t...
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Brexit is unlikely to curb migration | Migration & Citizenship Research
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Migration and Citizenship Research. Research and reports on migration and citizenship. OpenDemocracy – Europe. Migrants and Housing in the UK. How to tackle refugee crises →. Brexit is unlikely to curb migration. Professor Hein de Haas. From the International Migration Institute. At the University of Oxford has a great post assessing the evidence of whether a possible ‘Brexit’ would lead do a decrease in the levels of migration. Here are some highlights:. 8220;This structural increase of migration to Swi...
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African migration: trends, patterns, drivers | Comparative Migration Studies | Full Text
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Skip to main content. African migration: trends, patterns, drivers. As the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) stated, ‘The system of migrant smuggling () has become nothing more than a mechanism for robbing and murdering some of the poorest people of the world’ (UNODC, 2006. Not only media and politicians, but also scholars fuel the image of a rising tide of poverty-driven African emigration. For instance, Myers argued that the current flow of ‘environmental refugees’. Based on the common p...
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Hein de Haas: May 2015
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Saturday, 16 May 2015. How much do we really learn from history? German Jews Pouring into This Country". This is what the The Daily Mail, a British tabloid newspaper, had to say about German Jews seeking refuge from Nazi brutality in 1938. The article quotes a magistrate stating that "The way stateless Jews from Germany are pouring in from every port of the country is becoming an outrage. I intend to enforce the law to the fullest",. 1938 Daily Mail article. The Nazis initially saw emigration as an impor...
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Hein de Haas: Borders beyond control?
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Wednesday, 7 January 2015. In my previous blogpost, I argued that politicians are often busy with feigning immigration control. While in reality they often can or want to do little about it. Does that mean that borders are beyond control. As Jagdish Bhagwati famously argued in 2003? Have governments lost control? What do we actually know about the effects of immigration policies? In order to answer this question, I have conducted a research project on the 'Determinants of International Migration' ( DEMIG.